 The Life of Johnson is assuredly a great, a very great work. Homer is not more decidedly the first of heroic poets, Shakspeare is not more decidedly the first of dramatists, Demosthenes is not more decidedly the first of orators, than Boswell is the first...  Bookseller's catalogues - Page 30by William Brough (bookseller.) - 1853Full view - About this book
 | 1927 - 594 pages
...not more decidedly the first of orators than Boswell is the first of biographers. He has no second. He has distanced all his competitors so decidedly...while to place them. Eclipse is first, and the rest nowhere. That Macaulay, an Englishman, should have compared Boswell to Eclipse is not surprising. Eclipse... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1871 - 704 pages
...not more decidedly the first of orators, than Boswell is the first of biographers. He has no second. He has distanced all his competitors so decidedly...while to place them. Eclipse is first, and the rest nowhere. We are not sure that there is in the whole history of the human intellect so strange a phaenomenon... | |
 | John Seely Hart - 1872 - 654 pages
...Demosthenes is not more decidedly tbe first of Orators, than Boswell is the first of Biographers. lie has distanced all his competitors so decidedly that it is not worth while to place them: Eclipse id first, and the rest nowhere. We are not sure that there is in the whole history of the human intellect... | |
 | James Boswell - 1873 - 620 pages
...not more decidedly the first of orator«, than Boswell is the first of biographers. He has no second. He has distanced all his competitors so decidedly...while to place them. Eclipse is first, and the rest nowhere. ' Of no historical figure hare we so complete a portrait as of the author of Bosselai and... | |
 | James Boswell, William Wallace - 1873 - 612 pages
...not more decidedly the first of orators, than Boswell is the first of biographers. He has no second. He has distanced all his competitors so decidedly that it is not worth while to place them. Eelipse is first, and the rest nowhere. ' Of no historical figure have we so complete a portrait as... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay (baron [essays]) - 1874 - 264 pages
...not more decidedly the first of orators, than Boswell is the first of biographers. He has no second. He has distanced all his competitors so decidedly...while to place them. Eclipse is first, and the rest nowhere. We are not sure that there is in the whole history of the human intellect so strange a phenomenon... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay (baron [essays]) - 1874 - 328 pages
...not more decidedly the first of orators, than Boswell is the first of biographers. He has no second. He has distanced all his competitors so decidedly that it is not worthwhile to place them. Eclipse is first, and the rest nowhere. We are not sure that there is in... | |
 | Thomas Whitcombe Greene - 1876 - 340 pages
...not more decidedly the first of orators, than Boswell is the first of biographers. He has no second, he has distanced all his competitors so decidedly,...while to place them. Eclipse is first, and the rest nowhere. — MACAULAY. Bodkin. A sword, or dagger. But on a time Brutus and Cassius That ever had of... | |
 | Literary curiosities - 1876 - 334 pages
...first of orators, than Boswell is the first of biographers. He has no second. He has distanced all competitors so decidedly that it is not worth while to place them. Eclipse is first, and the rest nowhere. We are not sure that there is in the history of the whole human intellect so strange a phenomenon... | |
 | Henry Noble Day - 1877 - 564 pages
...not more decidedly the first of orators, than Boswell is the first of biographers. He has no second. He has distanced all his competitors so decidedly, that it is not worth while to place them." In the coordinate field of travels and voyages there is the same luxuriant product. With much diversity... | |
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